Evaluating ‘better beta’ in commodity related funds

In futures-based commodities investing, picking the right ETP is harder than it looks. A lot of exchange-traded products try to beat the market, but it’s only in commodities that the more active products are often more popular than their plain-vanilla counterparts.
The most popular basket commodities fund, the PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund (DBC), has over $7 billion in assets under management — more than three times the assets of the iPath Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Total Return ETN (DJP) and nearly six times the assets of the iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust (GSG)………………………………………..Full Article: Source